World-News

Carol J. Williams and Noam N. Levey, The Los Angeles Times: "Counting down to an election day expected to draw a record-shattering turnout, voting-rights watchdogs are sounding the alarm that a repeat of the Florida fiasco of 2000 could occur in any of a dozen battleground states. Lawsuits are already flying in many of these states."

http://www.truthout.org/103108B



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Election+Day
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carol+J.+Williams
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+N.+Levey

DGB-Vorstandsmitglied Annelie Buntenbach kritisiert, dass die amtliche Zahl von unter drei Millionen Arbeitslosen über das wahre Ausmaß der Erwerbslosigkeit in Deutschland hinwegtäuscht. "Noch immer sind fünf Millionen Menschen auf Arbeitssuche", sagte sie der "Passauer Neuen Presse". Die Zahl ergebe sich unter anderem, weil Ein-Euro-Jobber und Menschen in kurzfristigen Trainingsmaßnahmen in der Statistik nicht mitgezählt werden. Zudem liege die Zahl der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Jobs trotz Aufschwungs gegenüber 2001 um rund 500.000 niedriger.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18853



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ein-Euro-Job

Oct 31 2008 by Helen Hunt, Liverpool Echo

A BAN on putting mobile phone masts on land owned by a Merseyside council could be lifted.

Sefton council is considering a request to lift a moratorium that prohibits mobile telecommunications equipment on its land and buildings.

The argument is that the current rules lead to masts being put up elsewhere – against the wishes of residents and the council.

Read More...
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/10/31/phone-mast-ban-could-be-lifted-100252-22156915/

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/31-7



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/31-4



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/31-1



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Naomi+Klein

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/31-0

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Bush Administration Makes a Last Push to Deregulate

R. Jeffrey Smith, The Washington Post: "The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January."

http://www.truthout.org/103108A



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+regulation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=R.+Jeffrey+Smith

guardian.co.uk — While formal poll taxes were declared illegal in 1965 with the passage of the Voting Rights Act, versions of it remain in place — for instance, in the cost of taking time off work, traveling to the polls, or obtaining identification. African American votes are now discounted by many other means, as well. In Florida in 2000, the suppression of black votes changed the final outcome of the presidential election. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found "widespread disenfranchisement and denial of voting rights" in Florida, which was ten times more likely to affect African Americans.

http://ga3.org/ct/B120pgF12EyT/



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Wall St. has created such an "obscene" standard of compensation that the big shots really believe "it's hard to live on just a half million dollars a year." This does not appear to be much of an exaggeration. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported securities-industry employees averaged $400,000 a year in salary alone last year."

http://www.counterpunch.org/heller10302008.html



Broken Securities Industry Still Has $20 Billion to Pay Bonuses

Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven't stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aVann0.cv9Tw&refer=home


From Information Clearing House



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Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last night that the Attorney General is to investigate allegations that a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay was brutally tortured.

http://tinyurl.com/5bvutj


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
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By Bob Kendall

Now that the U.S.A. has discovered that only Mexico and Turkey had poverty rates higher than the 30-country study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, what if anything will be done to help the U.S. poor obtain health care?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21129.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=health+care

By David M. Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General

Staring into the abyss always focuses the mind, which can help you avoid falling in. So let's take a look at the potential catastrophe that awaits us once we survive our current crisis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21130.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abyss
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By Jonathan Freedland

The raid on Syria is a dark portent. The current president has three long, unaccountable months to cement his legacy.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21126.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
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In 2004, voters in key states waited in long lines at the polls only to later discover the voting machines did not record their vote for a presidential candidate. This occurrence is known as an undervoting. This clip from David Earnhardt's documentary film, "Uncounted," focuses on cases of undervoting in the 2004 battleground states of New Mexico and Pennsylvania.

http://www.truthout.org/103108J



Ohio Provisional Ballots May Prove Pivotal

Ian Urbina, The New York Times: "If the outcome of next week's presidential election is close, this precariously balanced state could be the place where the two parties begin filing the inevitable lawsuits over voting irregularities, experts say.... The most likely source of litigation is the state's heavy use of provisional ballots, which are issued when a voter's identity or registration cannot immediately be verified or when polls stay open late. Ohio has a history of requiring large numbers of voters to use these ballots, which are easy to disqualify and are not counted until after the election."

http://www.truthout.org/103108L

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Dying for free elections
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/466.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=presidential+election
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+irregularities
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=uncounted
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=undervot
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machine
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=provisional+ballot
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(redaktion/pm)

Durch das Web 2.0 sehen sich Kinder und Jugendliche mehr denn je mit den grausamsten Formen fiktionaler und realer Gewalt konfrontiert. Prof. Dr. Petra Grimm, Dekanin der Fakultät ...

http://bildungsklick.de/a/64048/studie-gewalt-im-web-20-massive-auswirkungen-auf-kinder-und-jugendliche/

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Cyber-Bullying (Cyber-Mobbing)
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3561020/

Latest News on Global Financial Crisis

October 31, 2008
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10767


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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Spencer Overton: We need an independent election commission; Is the fox guarding the henhouse.

View
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=252



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Election+Day

"IM NAMEN DER KRISE bekämpft Nicolas Sarkozy den befürchteten Anstieg der Massenarbeitslosigkeit - mit einem neuen Bündel von Maßnahmen. Dieses enthält jedoch vor allem Altbekanntes: Befristete (also prekäre) Arbeitsverträge, Sonntagsarbeit, Druck auf Arbeitslose" so beginnt der aktuelle Artikel "Blut, Sch... und Tränen" von Bernard Schmid vom 31. Oktober 2008: http://www.labournet.de/internationales/fr/finanzbernard3.html


Aus: LabourNet, 31. Oktober 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarkozy
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Im Jahr 2008 wurde im Zuge der kapitalistischen Krise in den USA alle 10 Sekunden ein Haus beschlagnahmt - macht in der Jahressumme runde 2 Millionen. Mit Abschiedsbriefen, die darauf verwiesen, sind im Verlauf des Jahres mehrere hundert Selbstmorde registriert worden. Die Kommerzmedien sorgen sich um die Banken: LabourNet Germany versucht, in der aktuellen knappen Materialsammlung "Bankenopfer" vom 31.Oktober 2008, den Blick nicht auf beschenkte Millionäre sondern auf beraubte Millionen Menschen zu lenken: http://www.labournet.de/internationales/usa/bankenopfer.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Finanzkrise
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rettungspaket

Reason
by Damon W. Root

10/29/08

The U.S. Constitution, of course, already provides the president with a crucial check on the legislative branch: It’s called the veto. Nowhere in our founding documents, however, does the president receive the authority to pick and choose which laws he’s going to obey. Thankfully, George W. Bush won’t be president much longer. But the executive powers he helped forge will still be around. Is there any reason to think his successor will be much better? Not really...

http://www.reason.com/news/show/129724.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
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Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

10/30/08

The threat by the George W Bush administration to withdraw all economic and military support from the Iraqi government if it does not ratify a pact to regulate the US presence in the country has fallen on deaf ears. The financial loss will hurt, but more than anything politicians - acutely aware of the country’s history - know what their fate will be if they are perceived as “agents for the Americans’...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JJ31Ak02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+pact
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Boston Globe
by Jeff Jacoby

10/29/08

It has been a favorite trope of the Bush-bashers: The 43d president’s power-lust is so insatiable, his disdain for constitutional checks and balances so complete, that he has fashioned himself into a dictator. … ‘In terms of the power he now claims without significant challenge,’ Michael Kinsley asserted, ‘George W. Bush is now the closest thing in a long time to dictator of the world.’ When it emerged that the National Security Agency was sifting telephone records for possible counterterrorism leads, CNN’s Jack Cafferty fumed that the administration intended to establish ‘a full-blown dictatorship in this country.’ In a recent piece for the Times of London, Andrew Sullivan informs us that ‘in war and economic crisis, Bush has insisted that there is no alternative to dictatorial rule’...

http://tinyurl.com/6fr247


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
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The American Prospect
by Ezra Klein

10/30/08

Give the Obama campaign this: They have message consistency. John McCain is ‘more of the same.’ He voted with George W. Bush ‘more than 90 percent of the time.’ … Obama campaign allies have taken up the call with a single-mindedness not seen since Republicans discovered the political potency of summer footwear in the 2004 election. In one of the best-received lines at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Bob Casey, Jr. said, ‘John McCain calls himself a maverick, but he votes with George Bush 90 percent of the time. That’s not a maverick. That’s a sidekick.’ … At the same time, the ‘more of the same’ rhetoric has muddied the actual choice facing the electorate...

http://tinyurl.com/6blor4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Elliot Cohen, Truthdig: "Sen. John McCain's ideological ties to the Bush-Cheney administration have mostly passed beneath the radar of the mainstream media, but if McCain loses the presidential race to Barack Obama, his neoconservative legacy could erupt into the open with a force that should not be underestimated."

http://www.truthout.org/103108D



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Der Präsident will der unter Druck geratenen Presse unter die Arme greifen. Vor allem aber wohl seinen reichen Freunden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29031/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarkozy

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/465.html



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Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch.com: "A week ago, I had a long conversation with a four-star US military officer who, until his recent retirement, had played a central role in directing the global war on terror. I asked him: What exactly is the strategy that guides the Bush administration's conduct of this war? His dismaying, if not exactly surprising, answer: There is none."

http://www.truthout.org/103008U

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The War on Terror is 'a very expensive fraud'
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8010/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=global+war+on+terror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andrew+J.+Bacevich

Dean Baker, Truthout: "A surge in defense spending added 0.86 percentage points to gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Consumption spending fell at a 3.1 percent annual rate in the third quarter, which was the main factor leading to a 0.3 percent decline in GDP. Inventory build-ups prevented an even larger decline; final demand fell at a 0.8 percent annual rate."

http://www.truthout.org/103008T



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Ann Wright, Truthout: "I am in San Francisco this week before the election, campaigning for Cindy Sheehan. She is running against both the Republican and Democratic establishments, but more specifically against Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi."

http://www.truthout.org/103008R

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Sheehan campaign HQ damaged in late-night attack

Breitbart News

10/30/08

Just 5 days before the election, at 3a.m. on October 30th, all of the front windows of the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign offices were shattered. Although staffers had been in the office less than an hour earlier, no one was in the building at the time of the incident. No one was hurt and there were no witnesses. Cindy Sheehan is a candidate for Congress in California’s 8th Congressional District race against incumbent Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). ‘It seems to have been a calculated intimidation tactic,’ said Tiffany Burns, the Cindy for Congress campaign manager. ‘One of our computers was stolen, but no other property was taken from our offices and no surrounding buildings were targeted. Clearly they wanted to both frighten us and to gather information.’ Total damage to the campaign office is currently estimated at more than $5,000...

http://tinyurl.com/63nhrh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
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http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1164243/12759198/63548/0/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt360.html



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http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1164243/12759198/63543/0/



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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/30-0

Common Cause: Election Watch Dogs Warn Equipment Could Lose Votes
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/30-9



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voting+machine
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/30-10



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+G.+Hall

The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a company claiming to be solvent in September could have developed such a big hole by October. Some analysts say at least part of the shortfall must have been there all along, hidden by irregular accounting.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/30/business/30aig.php



Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn salary and bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out

Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million.

http://tinyurl.com/6cqew3



Taxpayers Could Cover Government Pension Shortfall

Illinois taxpayers may soon be called on to bail out what is arguably the best-funded public pension plan in the state thanks to $3.6 billion in fund losses caused by the spiraling economy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/29/taxpayers-could-cover-gov_n_139036.html



Exxon Mobil posts biggest US quarterly profit ever

Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_exxon_mobil


From Information Clearing House

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Banks to Continue Paying Dividends

Binyamin Appelbaum, The Washington Post: "U.S. banks getting more than $163 billion from the Treasury Department for new lending are on pace to pay more than half of that sum to their shareholders, with government permission, over the next three years.... Critics, including economists and members of Congress, question why banks should get government money if they already have enough money to pay dividends - or conversely, why banks that need government money are still spending so much on dividends."

http://www.truthout.org/103008B

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Oil Company Bonanza Continues With Record Profits for Shell and Exxon
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/30-9

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Bush Administration Christmas Gift to Oil Companies Will be Announced on Election Day
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/30-16



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+International+Group
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Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to review torture allegations from men held in the CIA's prisons-because it could put the nation at risk of grave danger if allowed to be made public.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/cia-can-hide-to.html



DOD and CIA Can Decide Which Laws They Like

The judge's reasoning highlighted one of the more disturbing aspects of the recent revelations that the Defense Dept., with the aid of the Justice Dept., likely tortured prisoners in violation of U.S. and international law.

http://tinyurl.com/6kggel


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Royce+Lamberth
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The Bush administration is leaving behind foreign policy tripwires that could blow up on the next president.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/la-oe-brooks30-2008oct30,1,6321450.column


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rosa+Brooks

Baghdad wants to delete any reference in a security pact with Washington to the possibility of US troops staying in Iraq after 2011, an MP close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday.

http://tinyurl.com/677ols



US pact must guard Iraq sovereignty: top Shiite cleric

Top Iraqi Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani insists that the security pact being negotiated with Washington must not harm Iraq's sovereignty, his office said on Wednesday.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gw2cRozfL-fWuuihAcQxFiElbJTA



Senior Iraqi Leader Says Pact With U.S. Is Unlikely to Pass

The Bush administration has repeatedly said that the current draft of the agreement is the furthest that the United States is willing to go. "The bar to any revisions is very high," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

http://mobile.washingtonpost.com/detail.jsp?key=306424&rc=po&p=1&all=1



Iraq gov't wants all US troops gone by end of 2011

Those demands, which were presented to U.S. officials this week, could derail the deal - delivering a diplomatic blow to Washington in the final weeks of the Bush administration.

http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/63628.html?isap=1&nav=5030



US's Syrian raid sets Iraq on fire

It came as such a surprise to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that he was completely dumfounded at commenting. Here was the prime minister of Iraq, an ally of Iran and a former resident of Syria, watching Syria being attacked from his own territory - without his knowledge.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JK01Ak05.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+pact
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+withdraw
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Maliki
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Syria
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ali+Sistani

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21121.htm



McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue

This Is The Lowest McCain Has Sunk Yet.

By Juan Cole

McCain's and Palin's attacks on Khalidi are frankly racist. He is a distinguished scholar, and the only objectionable thing about him from a rightwing point of view is that he is a Palestinian.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21119.htm



The patriotism litmus test

Conservatives have long smeared their opponents as unpatriotic. Such divisive rhetoric brings out the worst in America.

http://tinyurl.com/58wz7n


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
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By Paul Craig Roberts

What explains the paradox of the dollar's sharp rise in value against other currencies (except the Japanese yen) despite disproportionate US exposure to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21122.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hegemony
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alternet.org — After all, the average autoworker only makes $56,650 a year, who do they think they are?

http://ga3.org/ct/Ep20pgF1MEEM/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker

thenation.com — The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you look more closely at Paulson's transaction, the taxpayers were taken for a ride — a very expensive ride.

http://ga3.org/ct/y720pgF1MEEe/

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Paulson the Bungler

By Mike Whitney

There's more pain to come, but the suffering can be mitigated by sound decision-making and Keynesian policies. That means public work programs, bankruptcy reform, and extensions on unemployment. Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman recommends a stimulus package of $600 billion. That's a good start, but it will take much more than that.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21212.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Goldman+Sachs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keynesian
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Krugman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

Naomi Zeveloff, The Colorado Independent: "Thousands of Coloradans have been denied the right to vote because of a policy that may violate federal law. Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman has authorized county clerks to purge newly registered voters under the so-called 20-day rule. Here, county clerks must send non-forwardable letters to newly registered voters. If the mail bounces back to the clerks, then they must remove the voter applicants' names from the rolls. Voting rights advocates say that the policy violates the 1965 National Voting Rights Act."

http://www.truthout.org/103008K



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=purg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Voting+Rights+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Naomi+Zeveloff

Marcia Mitchell, Truthout: "New allegations of illegal eavesdropping have put the NSA once again on the political hot seat. This time, for listening in on phone calls made by American military and humanitarian workers. Hardly a surprise, given the agency's history of disregard for the laws that govern who listens to whom and for what purpose. No surprise either that former NSA head Michael Hayden, now director of the CIA, insists that charges of agency lawbreaking are 'ridiculous.'"

http://www.truthout.org/103008J

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How the Government Spies on and Prosecutes Peace Activists
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/37239


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Hayden

FIGHT: Rebecca Hodel-Jones has vowed to fight plans for the mobile phone mast. P5971a844, Picture: PHIL SAMBROOK

Published Date: 30 October 2008

By Hannah Postles

DETERMINED residents have vowed to fight plans to build a mobile phone mast opposite Glass Houghton's Healthy Living Centre. Homeowners say they fear for their health and have launched a petition against Vodafone Ltd's application to install three antennas on top of Yorkshire House.

Read More...
http://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/news/Mobile-phone-mast-fight.4641847.jp

Arme und Reiche

„Die Statistiker der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung OECD, ein Zusammenschluss der Regierungen reicher Länder, haben in einer neuen Studie herausgefunden, dass in Deutschland Armut und Einkommensungleichheit zugenommen haben. Für wenige, war das eine neue Erkenntnis. Ein Blick auf die Ergebnisse der OECD-Studie zeigt allerdings mehr noch als die offensichtlichen Fakten, die in den Medien aufgegriffen wurden. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen, dass Armut zum kapitalistischen Alltag gehört und keineswegs nur eine vorübergehende Krisenerscheinung ist…“ Dossier von Wal Buchenberg vom 27.10.2008 bei indymedia http://de.indymedia.org/2008/10/230581.shtml


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Oktober 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Armut

„Den „Nachdenkseiten" zufolge befindet sich die Zahl der Erwerbslosen in Deutschland auf einem dramatischen Stand. Die Empfänger von Arbeitslosengeld I und II hätten im Vergleich zum Jahr 2005 um 441.000 zugenommen. Unter Bezug auf öffentliche Statistiken setzten sich die Arbeitslosenzahlen von insgesamt ca. 9.647.540 Erwerbslosen im September 2008 (vorläufig) wie folgt zusammen: Arbeitslosengeld I – 807.222 und Arbeitslosengeld II – 4.897.834. Hinzu kommen Bezieher von Sozialgeld: 1.872.730, Menschen in Fortbildungsmaßnahmen: 1.600.000, Ein-Euro-Jobber: 329.745 und Menschen, die nach der "58er-Regelung" automatisch aus der Statistik fallen: 140.000 (Juni). Sie werden statistisch sämtlich nicht mitgezählt. 1,3 Mio. Menschen erhalten inzwischen zusätzlich zu ihrem Verdienst Arbeitslosengeld II. Die Zahl der geringfügig Beschäftigten ist vom 5,5 Millionen im Jahr 2003 auf 7,02 Mio. im Jahr 2008 gestiegen. Inzwischen kämpfen die Armutsküchen um Lebensmittelspenden, weil sie die 800.000 Bedürftigen kaum noch versorgen können.“ Meldung bei der NRhZ-Online - Neue Rheinische Zeitung vom 28.10.2008. Siehe dazu die Dokumentation von und bei Theo Nußbaum http://www.theonussbaum.de/seiten/arbeitslos/arbeitslosenzahlen_2008.htm

Siehe dazu:

Die Entwicklung des Arbeits- und Ausbildungsmarktes im Oktober 2008 Presse Info der Bundesagentur für Arbeit vom 30.10.2008 http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_27030/zentraler-Content/Pressemeldungen/2008/Presse-08-067.html

Fakten für Arbeitnehmer/innen: Datenkarte 2008

Wichtige Daten zur wirtschaftlichen und arbeitsmarktpolitischen Lage im praktischen Taschenformat - aufbereitet mit dem Blick für die Nutzung durch Mitbestimmungspraktiker. Zum Beispiel: Wie hoch ist die Arbeitslosenquote im Osten? Wieviel mitbestimmte Unternehmen gibt es in Deutschland? Bundesschulden, Durchschnittsverdienste, Krankenstand... Die Datenkarte 2008 auch mit Zahlen zu Empfängern von Arbeitslosengeld II, Minijobs und Sozialgeld. Außerdem: neue Daten zu Umwelt und Gesundheit. Alle Datenblätter gibt es hier zum Download: http://www.boeckler.de/datenkarte


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Oktober 2008



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arbeitslose

Angela Balakrishnan, The Guardian UK: "Improved security has failed to prevent Iraq becoming the scene of one of the world's most critical humanitarian disasters with water supplies and sewage systems putting millions at risk of disease, the Red Cross said today. The statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross said the situation has not improved significantly since March this year when the organization published its report, Iraq: No Let-up in The Humanitarian Crisis."

http://www.truthout.org/102908HA

Marian Wilkinson and Ben Cubby, The Sydney Morning Herald: "Sydney's iconic beaches, coastal houses, commercial property and roads will be threatened by rising sea levels by 2050, while the city's temperature is expected to rise by at least two degrees, a new scientific study, launched by the Premier, Nathan Rees, reveals. The study finds that bushfires are likely to be more intense while rainfall may become more erratic, creating water shortages. But while winter rains decline, intense summer rain in parts of Sydney could increase flash flooding."

http://www.truthout.org/102908EA

Charlie Savage, The New York Times: "Mr. Bush had appointed six of the seven judges in the conservative majority. His administration has transformed the nation's federal appeals courts, advancing a conservative legal revolution that began nearly three decades ago under President Ronald Reagan."

http://www.truthout.org/102908T



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=appeal+court
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charlie+Savage

J. Taylor Rushing, The Hill: "Democratic leaders are discussing a major reshuffling of Senate committee chairmanships, according to multiple sources, and the proposed changes include ousting Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) from his coveted chairmanship. Lieberman, a former Democrat who supports Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) for president, is likely to lose his gavel on the Homeland Security Committee he has chaired since January 2007, say the sources who see him being replaced by Sen. Daniel Akaka (Hawaii), the committee's third-ranking Democrat."

http://www.truthout.org/102908S



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=J.+Taylor+Rushing

Jane Perlez, The New York Times: "The Pakistani government lodged a formal protest Wednesday against American missile attacks on Taliban and al-Qaeda militants in the nation's tribal areas and told the American ambassador the strikes should be 'stopped immediately,' the Foreign Ministry said."

http://www.truthout.org/102908R



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jane+Perlez

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgkeTanCGI&feature=related

Naomi Klein on troops having been deployed in the USA on 1st October under President's orders only. They are for 'crowd control' using tasers etc.

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=crowd+control
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taser
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fascis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Naomi+Wolf

http://www.wwf.de/presse/details/news/living_planet_report_2008/


Weitergeleitet durch das Dugi-News-Team am Donnerstag, den 30. Oktober 2008. Mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung.

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Die Ausbeutung der Erde kostet 4 bis 4,5 Billionen US-Dollar pro Jahr
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/118083

Langfristige Temperaturentwicklung in der Arktis und Antarktis liefern weitere Belege für den Einfluss des Menschen auf das Klima
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/118244

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"Let's make MONEY"

"Let's make MONEY" folgt dem Weg unseres Geldes, dorthin wo spanische Bauarbeiter, afrikanische Bauern oder indische Arbeiter unser Geld vermehren und selbst bettelarm bleiben. Nach "We feed the world" der neue Film von Erwin Wagenhofer. Der Film zeigt uns die gefeierten Fondsmanager, die das Geld ihrer Kunden jeden Tag aufs Neue anlegen. Zu sehen sind Unternehmer, die zum Wohle ihrer Aktionäre ein fremdes Land abgrasen, solange die Löhne und Steuern niedrig und die Umwelt egal ist. Wir erleben die allgegenwärtige Gier und die damit verbundene Zerstörung, die mit unserem Geld angerichtet wird.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684668ms126



Wir leben über unsere Verhältnisse

Seit 30 Jahren gibt es internationale Umwelt- und Klimaschutzkonferenzen. Aber der Umwelt und dem Klima geht es immer schlechter. Wir Menschen in den Industriestaaten leben über unsere Verhältnisse.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684663ms126



Jetzt noch mehr Möglichkeiten zum freiwilligen Klimaschutz

Erweitertes Angebot zur CO2-Kompensation für Unternehmen und Privatpersonen.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684667ms126



WWF: "2035 reicht eine Erde nicht mehr"

Nach der Finanzkrise droht nun in absehbarer Zeit eine ökologische Krise. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684682ms126



Die Chancen einer ökologischen Industriepolitik

Exportinitiative "Recycling- und Effizienztechnik" stellt Ergebnisse vor. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684670ms126



Deutsche Bank veröffentlicht Studie zum Klimawandel

Konjunkturbelebung möglich durch Investitionen in "grüne" Infrastruktur und erneuerbare Energien.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684679ms126



Globales Energieszenario: Nachhaltige Energieversorgung ist machbar

DLR erarbeitet Energiestudie im Auftrag von Greenpeace International. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684685ms126



Greenpeace-Weltenergieplan: Klimaschutz als Chance für die Weltwirtschaft

Erneuerbare Energien könnten sich angesichts der jetzigen Finanzkrise als echter Konjunkturmotor erweisen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741684689ms126



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimawandel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Klimaschutz

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer88.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Election+Day
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/shaffer

http://list.lewrockwell.com/t/1163134/12759198/63439/0/

Bringing Back the (Nonexistent) Golden Days
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson232.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+liberties
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/anderson